france intensifies its assault on the hideouts of islamic militants border with algeria says locals in the liberated cities claim the campaign has come at a high cost to civilians. the most comprehensive claims yet of illegal rendition and torture in secret cia prisons around the world emerged in a report released by a top american ngo. and iranian president flies into egypt for the first time in more than three decades and a visit seen as an attempt to improve ties between the two regional heavyweights since islamists came to power that.

live from our new center here in moscow this is r.t. with you twenty four hours a day french military forces have stepped up their offensive on rebel bases in northern mali with troops moving into the city of kid of the last bastion of islamist insurgents around one thousand eight hundred soldiers from chad a also joint operation meanwhile two senior islamic leaders have been captured fleeing airstrikes on the border with algeria he reports now from the country. euler see that is their money dollars they know what i'm going to look at today in this town and everyone is celebrating the capture of two important islamist leaders one of them is mohammed the head of the demon a group which retired will continue to for months particularly violating the rights of women he was captured along with. the leader of the movement for unity and jihad

in west africa say he was taken north of keep close to the border with algeria the capture of these two leaders demonstrates what everyone knows the city of go into book to buy havens of security in a dangerous wilderness we were ourselves detained by the mali an army when trying to get to the city of any movement towards the north has been strictly forbidden since last weekend when six million soldiers were killed by explosives planted by rebels on the roads leading there was this risk affects the stability of the country distances in mali are so big that it is next to impossible to travel safely on the roads and so now the region lacks food medicine and fuel specifically in this part of the region and in most there are about seven thousand refugees and children suffer the most coming unless medication is brought into the centers treating malnutrition like the one we saw in mopti would face tragedy becoming. likely. tracing malnutrition is a necessity in today's critical situation negligence was the cause of malnutrition

before but now and then this crisis most children are suffering does unless it happens in every home where children don't get enough care and could die. alternative syrians are being tried to deliver supplies to timbuktu v.n.d. share and spread them to the north from there we also saw many people come to donate blood so desperately needed in hospitals a christian community in the central region of mali has been collecting supplies that as. the war has taken on a religious meaning and when that happens the first. they're hunting us those who are directly linked with religion. despite the fact the war is moving away the situation remains critical to a country filled with refugees and. health and food crisis is putting eighty million people at risk of malnutrition is there pressure on us by what appears

about a minute here gonzalo launcher. for r.t. . meanwhile mounting reports from cities that have been liberated suggests that freedom has come at a cost french airstrikes have reportedly resulted in a number of civilian casualties get the research from amnesty international has just returned from the water and country he says the campaign raises many concerns . but we were able to to register was that to use tonight solutions including your traditional killings we collected testimonies from a large variety of people who told us how. some people are arrested in the town of severity and then brought in short of where they were created and then froning to the well later we had also stories about people who had been arrested and some of them disappeared regarding the care of these of the civilians

who were killed in the town of qana what we are asking both the french and the million armies is not they should or should be a commission of inquiry just to to know the circumstances of the death of the five people who were killed including the children because these people need a potion there should be kind of warnings given to the civilian population so that they could they could leave the war zones to to seek shelter elsewhere some of the groups been leaving some of the towns in mali and they may be seeking refuge in the days i mean we had been writing about the hostage taking of our kind of of some thirty trees being taken into a stage and a concern also what we are concerned about is that there may be a prisoner tax agreement civilly and who may be accused of collaborating with the

armed groups so we are concerned about that. fresh allegations of emerge of secret cia prisons around the world and violations that have allegedly been taking place there a new york based ngo funded by one of america's richest men george soros has unveiled a report which claims to detail the operation of these so-called black sites. on has the details. this is a very comprehensive report prepared by the open society foundation is not only do they detail torture techniques that were used at cia secret prisons overseas to so-called black sites but also give a list of countries that one way or another produce appétit in cia secret detention and extraordinary rendition operations including by hosting cia prisons on their territories detaining interrogating torturing and abusing it of the jewels assisting in a tour in the capture and transport of detainees and so on so the list includes countries like afghanistan all australia canada denmark

djibouti age of georgia germany syria turkey italy the united arab emirates. united the united kingdom yemen and other countries while president bush acknowledged that the cia had secretly detained about one hundred prisoners and this report alleges that there were more the u.s. government had only identified sixteen high value detainees italy is the only country where record criminally convicted officials for the involvement in extraordinary rendition operations canada is the only country to issue an apology to an extraordinary rendition victim i'm on here are are with the who was rendered to and tortured in syria and only three countries in addition to canada sweet and australia and the united kingdom have issued compensation to extraordinary rendition victims and this report is rife with human rights abuses and it's clear

that high ranking bush administration officials bear responsibility for authorizing human rights violations and yet no one was prosecuted because the u.s. government has. classified everything related to its torture practices and any accusation would be dismissed on state secrets grounds. now let's get some reaction from journalist and historian douglas found in time he's joining me live now from the u.s. you've got a lot of research on secret cia prisons what have you been able to uncover and what evidence are your findings based on well certainly just begin by saying that. the fact that the cia is working i view us through cia organized on. matters just a global terror network. is a war crime of epic proportions but even more disturbing is fact the complicity

of so many politicians and secret services in foreign countries sends a clear signal. through the simply exist that sends a clear signal that the. united states that is something of a virtual taters. capable and willing to punish. other people for things that it's quite willing to do itself and. not just to groups. that would scream as you say a war crime taking place here well now that all these allegations to be made public what's going to take to press charges and bring anyone to account if they are indeed deemed as illegal the same sort of thing that happened during the vietnam war you have to understand. the cia doesn't do these things as a sort of rogue element it has the. us congress by certain very

important congress people who believe that they are reflecting the will of the american people in the wake of nine eleven there was a huge outcry in america. for vengeance for the united states to prove for the government to prove that it was more terrible than the people who launched the nine eleven attack and so. congress believing that the will of the american people authorized the cia to do this so the only thing that will stop it is not any international court it's simply the will of the american people doing what it did for example during. the during the vietnam war when it have enough of. the government millions of the enemies of peace and just rose up and oppose the government. there are many who will argue surely and you mentioned nine eleven shortly that detention interrogation of terror suspects has been a necessary precaution since then on the so-called war on terror has not made the

world a safer place with these detention centers. you know that's debatable the. problem is that. since nine eleven the government has been able to maintain this out of. the attitude that you just sort of expressing that that it's required for security to commit crimes. if this is never been. necessary before it what it exhibits is one of the illustrates that the government has. since nine eleven more capable propagandizing the american people by exaggerating the threats that exist in order to perpetuate which probably is a state of emergency that really doesn't exist in which the government's able to portray the united states the greatest military power that ever existed on the planet earth that somehow the victim or the. person that's being bullied.

the truth is exactly the opposite but of course some may say that the state of emergency does exist. and he's been killed haven't you stop al qaeda radical islamists that now on the rise across the muslim world with those circumstances isn't america's so-called war on terror it's still justified in going to go on on and. absolutely not because the war on terror itself is is a is a overstatement vast overstatement of the dangers that exist in the it's been proven in afghanistan that we simply created more enemies in iraq we've created more enemies in the war on terror is the war and war killing torturing detaining people is not a way to bring a rope to resolve problem the way to resolve problems is through people trying to understand each other to reach a combination to do things dems will magically except the situation that exists

right now that the united states has the military upper hand in it's not willing to give that up. by having the military upper hand that can afford this will all around the world and one simply of simple pretext for doing douglas will leave that really interesting to hear your thoughts on this life in the u.s. author and historian douglas fountain time thank you for being with us here on your . well coming up in the program a little later the battle of negative press considers deflecting a wave of eastern european immigrants with adverts highlighting just want to be better off staying at home that's after the break. its technology innovation is developments from all around russia. the future

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news continues here in r.t. the iranian president. on his first visit to egypt to more than thirty years he's attending a muslim summit and is discussing security issues with the country's leader mohamed morsy iran also wants car on board with such issues as syria and its nuclear program. told me earlier that iran needs all the friends it can get. brown strongest ally in the arab world has now been serious serious been abroad a lot of iran this is the reason why pro israel lobby why the americans why the saudis etc so keen to talk about a sad now there's no such moment the syrian government is about what we're it for any around would be even more isolated than it is today and the unit in a very dangerous position so they are what makes good sense what iran is trying to build bridges with cairo are there financial motives behind this meeting where we've got to believe the economies are bearing in mind the situation there in iran with all those sanctions that are appearing to have a quite an impact on the iranian economy do you do they both need each other i

think they do and i think from morsi point of view i think as we see hearty people are going to rest in egypt but people are very happy with how things have gone legacy and carry on a look at it and ship people are on iraq will be one way in which you can say to these people look i'm not just a us puppet i'm going to be different here so i think from his point and he could get popularity at home by taking a more conciliatory line toward iraq could be running what if you course they've been pretty good on house i mean the pro israel lobby has been very successful in getting the u.s. and other countries to pass tougher and tougher sanctions on iran he really economy is a really bad state so iran needs all the friends it can get there's no reason for iraq should be isolated there's no proof it's developing nuclear weapons it's got a peaceful nuclear energy program which there's no evidence the contrary so therefore it's it's wrong but it should be totally isolated. the gulf kingdoms of bahrain in kuwait are seeing fresh public help cries against the countries unelected rulers who have been stepping up their crackdowns on dissent for the last

two years calls for more rights and democracy are increasingly met with the rest some brutal force as the conservative monex refuse to concede while the west is accuse of turning a blind eye to violations by its key arab and eyes as reports. as you. can see. life in the gulf used to look like this. but the black gold hidden beneath the sands transformed the arabian states from an hospitable deserts came storing structures of glass and steel physical testaments to their wealth and power in a wider region known for its tinderbox tensions the gulf monarchies have stood out for their relative stability and for an oil dependent west eager for a military stronghold to counter iran the gulf became a strategic away says petro dollars have helped to insulate the gulf against economic hardships plaguing other states but not against popular uprisings now the

gulf monarchies as a whole have been struggling to stave off the effects of the arab spring with varying degrees of success kuwait has largely seen as the most tolerant of the gulf countries but the worry is that the trend could be reversed activists say that it already has been political gatherings of more than twenty people are banned as are political parties and when the last opposition dominated parliament challenge the ruling authorities it was dismissed voting rules were changed to ensure critics say a more compliant parliament speaking out against the system has landed many activists in jail as for those who took to the streets to protest we were beaten up by. the special forces. and the sound bombs and but on and after the march whoever is on the street isn't just being detained and thrown into jail it's a struggle activists in bahrain are all too familiar with. three days after egypt's former president was ousted from power protests began in both rain like the

kuwaitis they weren't demanding an end to the monarchy but more representation at a violent crackdown saw a shift in some of those demands are those that you've got to stop it is that the different it is against the regime against the. i didn't stay that the situation. one thousand five hundred prison others we have. every day we have a lot of. security forces surrounding gave us i think the people like that the houses as an other gulf states the monarchy blames the unrest on a radical minority they are hardliners they want to see regime change they want to implement their own style of government and impose on the rest of the population. a system of government that is totally unacceptable these demands called. minster style democracy captain head of style democracy in. but critics

disagree saying the protesters simply want their governments to listen i want to comes to violent crackdowns he says westminster and capitol hill simply turn a blind eye to victims because we live in a country which have. the. they don't get aboard the people they don't care about the humanity they don't care about the bahraini blood they care about the. weather in bahrain saudi arabia qatar oman or kuwait seems like this one are becoming increasingly more common but now that shows a week like this one show that the gulf well wolf alone isn't enough to inflate the countries for people taking to the streets and demanding a major stake in their political system and unless the monarchies show themselves willing to listen their stability may prove to be a mirage you see caffein of r.t. kuwait. and remember you can always stay updated with all the latest news by

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u.k.'s looking at ways to curb the wave of eastern european immigrants expected at its doors will remain. given unrestricted access to the twenty fourteen the government's not considering a negative advertisement campaign about the country to make it less appealing to potential movement. reports. we show many things going for our country the english language testing times brilliant history very creative people some of the best universities in the world a great place to do business we need to stand up and shout about how great britain is and get people to come and invest and visit but that's not the message for everyone the u.k. government is reportedly brainstorming ways to dissuade eastern european immigrants from coming to britain come january twenty fourth teen twenty nine million romanians and bulgarians will be able to live and work anywhere in europe including the u.k. one idea being considered a negative advertising campaign about broken britain while the government considers

that some creative brits have been all too happy to expose their nation's flaws for all to see as you can imagine not all the romanians living in the u.k. are cleaning the toilets some of them are highly qualified they've and understudies their so they find this very aggressive and under society campaigning as one minister put it a negative ad campaign would help to correct the impression that these streets are paved with gold but even considering how to put off would be migrants the british government has managed to offend not one but two whole countries and now one rumania newspaper has decided that rather than getting mad it's going to get even instead. the romanian spoof campaign says that since it's so tough in the u.k. the brits should come to remain in danger by the british people to come to romania arguing their hero half of our women look like aids and the other half like her

sister so this is a fine campaign what if you can see behind it there's actually a serious message which is that romania have still valuable resources intelligence and humor and that britain should take advantage of this next wave. immigrants instead of marking them but the debate over immigration in the u.k. is growing more hostile some ministers have suggested limiting remaining in symbolic ariens access to health services and housing when they arrive i think it will look good on us as a country to do something much about but i can see where where the snow is coming from of having a lot of people coming over here and looking for work and benefits and housing but i doesn't sit well with me really to do something like that immigration is always something you want to be careful when talking about offing is a bit silly to be honest because we're living in the union europe which is open for every every time true which is you know in the years with the financial crisis

getting worse britain isn't as attractive as it was to migrants a decade ago english somehow imagine that everybody in the world wants to come to england because england is obviously the most finest greatest country for english people it is that they seem to forget that in the case of remaining friends and remain as a beautiful country as a loving warm exciting country to live in today so when they produce these statistics about thirty million remain one of the emerging everybody is going to leave and then the last one is to the light isn't going to be a single person left and then it really is nonsensical whether or not the anti britain campaign will ever make it to a billboard near to full rest is now beside the point the british government has already made pick these newest members feel that a little bit less welcome here. artsy london. the

u.s. and south korea of flexing their military muscles in the east china sea that self to north korea's recent threat to conduct a nuclear test seoul said the drills are part of regular military training while pyongyang claims it's a plot to attack it hemon writes law and co-founder of the national campaign to end the korean war eric says washington's only pouring fuel into the fire it's the worst thing you can do under these circumstances is to inflame volatile situation to conduct these military exercises that always inflame that use live ammunition on the border with north korea this is inflammatory on a lot of levels and we need to step back from these naval exercises it's like a race to the bottom if you will when are we going to get more creative in the way that we resolve conflict in this world this conflict gives us such an opportunity with a new secretary of state new leader in south korea we should be pushing for peace

suspend these naval exercises and go from there yes there should be non proliferation of nuclear weapons on the korean peninsula but we don't even recognize north korea as a nation have a peace treaty or formal relations to deal with these matters what do we expect. well coming up later this hour reaching out across the atlantic the american vice president joe biden visits london and a top level national security meeting just days after visiting paris and then we'll bring you the details of that story very shortly in the meantime we'll have the business news starts with a short break stay with us i'll take in the. secretary of state hillary clinton recently testified to congress in regards to the attack on

the u.s. consulate was killed an american ambassador in benghazi libya during the testimony couldn't rather calmly said things like that the revolutions that sprang up during the arab spring like in libya where the events in bali have created instability and safe havens for terrorists and she made it clear that there is no doubt that the algerian terrorists had weapons from libya so the us secretary has basically admitted that the actions of the usa and nato have caused a mass instability that has allowed the seeds of terrorism to grow when the justification for most of the actions in the muslim world is to stop evil dictators who harbor terrorists or spread chiding democracy if libya would have been left alone algerian terrorists wouldn't be getting any weapons from it now this is like an exterminator accidently or maybe on purpose actually feeding the roaches in your basements that there are ten times more of them and then saying that he has to keep working because he's the only one who can get rid of the roaches people like hillary clinton who support funding brutal jihad it's rebel groups to overthrow

governments to somehow bring about stability and democracy are either dismally stupid or consciously running a very brutal con game but that's just my opinion. choose your language. they feel some of the. treatments that the concerns get. the opinions that invigorating to. choose the stories that impact the. child's access to.